“Everything is at stake here. Everything. I firmly believe with all my heart, you guys, that, although we have had many threats to our nation. We have gone through a whole lot of things, and survived a many things… But nothing, I do not believe, not the Soviet Union during that 35-year period leading up to the fall of the Soviet Union thanks to Ronald Reagan… We had that threat, we survived it. Later we found out we had another threat to our way of life and that was al-Qaeda… But I firmly believe this… The greatest threat to the United States today, the greatest threat to our liberty, the greatest threat to the Constitution of the United States, the greatest threat to our way of life; everything we believe in. The greatest threat to the country that our founding fathers put together is the man that’s sitting in the White House today.” – Tom Tancredo, campaigning for Colorado senatorial candidate Ken Buck
Buck quickly disavowed these nutty comments, but did he think Tancredo would say something sane? Didn’t he know that Tancredo is the most high-profile racist in the country?
Tancredo seems fascile in his ability to switch between scapegoats, yesterday Hispanics, today Blacks. What is troublesome is not Tancredo per se, but the people in his previous district that kept sending him back to the House of Representatives.
Didn’t he know that Tancredo is the most high-profile racist in the country?
This was a rhetorical question, right?
Tea Party splits over racism, ejecting Tea Party Express..
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/07/18/tea.party.imbroglio/index.html?hpt=T1
The stupid movement will have to expel a dozen people a week because it’s racist, thru and thru. Politicians don’t want to say that, and they shouldn’t, but it’s obvious. All you have to do is go to a Palin event and talk to the people.
Buck tries to have it both ways. Then tries to walk it back.
http://www.coloradopols.com/diary/12904/do-not-give-tom-tancredo-a-microphone
SATURDAY PM UPDATE: Well, that’s the bottom, folks. The Colorado Independent’s Joseph Boven reports that Ken Buck has given the whole idea of World War II, 9/11 and nuclear annihilation some thought and changed his mind: Obama’s worse.
Speaking after Tancredo at the Conservative Western Summit on Saturday, where Tancredo reiterated statements made at a Buck supporter barbecue on Thursday, Weld County District Attorney Buck reversed his position.
“The other day my good friend and supporter Tom Tancredo said that the greatest threat to this country is the man who occupies the White House, Barack Obama,” Buck said Saturday. “There is a lot of truth in what Tom Tancredo says.”
When questioned as to whether Barack Obama is indeed the biggest threat to the United States, Buck originally said on Thursday: “”I think he has created a new word. It is called a ‘Tancredoism.’ I don’t agree. I think that there are a lot of threats in this country. I don’t think that the man in the White House is the greatest threat to this country at all.”
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